The air of inevitability around Comcast’s proposed $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable has dissipated as the F.C.C. prepares to vote on a proposal to regulate the Internet like a utility.Read more…

In the wake of the financial crisis, when rating agencies were blamed for feeding a subprime mortgage frenzy, Congress used the Dodd-Frank Act to adopt a battery of changes for the rating industry.Read more…

An appeals court ruling that narrows the grounds for insider trading cases may not be the cataclysm that the government contends it will be, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.Read more…

The credit rating agency has struck two tentative deals, one with state regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and one for $1.37 billion with the Justice Department and state attorneys general. Read more…

A court’s reversal of two insider trading convictions has been the equivalent of dropping a big rock into a calm lake as the waves spread to other cases, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column. Read more…